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The next morning, the news that the King of Southern Yunnan was assassinated in the north of Jiannan Road shocked the capital. He heard that the assassin was coming fiercely, with a large number of hundreds of people. The King of Southern Yunnan was plotted against the enemy to protect the princess. He was injured and his life was in danger. Fortunately, he had to support him all the way and barely escaped from the enemy.

This was a plan agreed upon by Yuan Cixian, Zheng Zhuo and Xu Shan in advance. She was naturally calm when she received the news, but she knew in her heart that to make the show realistic, her father would inevitably suffer from flesh and blood. The so-called "hard wounded" is not all illusions.

She immediately rushed into the palace in a panic manner, begging the saint to help, and performed it hard in the Zichen Palace, asking Emperor Huining, who was already in shock and doubt, to issue a quick order to order the entire Jiannan Road to martial law and strengthen patrols. At the same time, she sent officers and soldiers from surrounding prefectures and counties to escort Yuan Yizhi and his wife south.

At this point, King Ping's plan was defeated without any attack, and Zheng Zhuo could only barely win a game after hurting Lu Shiqing and Cai He one after another.

When Yuan Cixian was performing in Zichen Hall, Lu Shiqing was there to serve the saint. Emperor Huining comforted her a few words. Seeing that it was useless, he simply handed her over to him and asked the couple to go by themselves.

King Ping set out back to Huainan early in the morning, and Lu Shiqing's crisis was temporarily resolved. He originally thought that he might have confessed his identity to Yuan Cixian as soon as possible, but unexpectedly, she was still involved in the show after leaving the palace, looking very worried about Yuan Yizhi, and even he was hiding it.

He felt a little upset, and he couldn't speak out, pretending to be unaware of it, and he carefully analyzed the possible identities of the assassins with her. Yuan Cixian also nodded and expressed his views from time to time.

The two of them worked hard to win back to Shengyefang. Yuan Cixian and he were farewell to the door of Yuan Mansion, so they quickly returned to the study room in the courtyard. Zhuzhi was waiting for her there.

My dad doesn't have to worry about it, but she has something in her mind that she has been remembering since yesterday and is urgently needed an answer.

Yesterday, near Hanliang Hall, King Ping mentioned Cai Siqing to her. She had no interaction with Cai He, so she was really stunned at that time, but soon realized Ping Wang's intention of spying. When dealing with such a cunning politician, even if he shook his beard, it might have a deep meaning, not to mention the personnel matters he said from his mouth.

This morning, when Wang Ping left Beijing, Chang'an's eyeliner was withdrawn a lot. Seeing that the situation was safe, she sent Zhuzhi to inquire about this matter. Now she thought there was a result.

Seeing her return, Zhuozhi hurriedly stepped forward and said, "My little lady, there are a lot of information about Cai Siqing, but there are a few that should be interesting to you." She picked the point and said, "This person is 31 years old, born in the folk, his parents died early. He originally worked in the local area and only entered Beijing as an official four years ago."

Yuan Cixian was really stunned after hearing this.

This passage is a bit familiar, except for being an official, the rest can be roughly consistent with Xu Shan.

She continued, "What else can I find?"

Zhuanzhi nodded: "I have been waiting near Cai Mansion for a whole morning. During this period, I saw Cai Siqing go out of the door, so I noticed that there was a bandage wrapped in his right palm, as if he was seriously injured."

Yuan Cixian blinked three times slowly, and a scene flashed through his mind in a flash.

On the day of Huachao Festival, Xu Shan was plotted against the cliff. He had the opportunity to block the blade with his hand, but after he stretched out his right hand, he suddenly stopped halfway, so he was hit by that knife.

She did find it strange at the time, but later she saw that he was seriously injured and unconscious, so she naturally couldn't bother him with such meaningless questions. She just thought he had made a mistake for a moment. Now that she heard Zhuzhi say it, she became suspicious again.

She suddenly had an incredible idea: Xu Shan may not be the only one.

This sword was not that he could not stop it, but that he could not stop it. Because besides the common man, he had another identity. Once he was pierced by his palm and left a wound in such a clear place, this identity was exposed. This is also the reason why the assassin sent by King Ping tried his best to stab the sword even though he knew he was unable to kill someone - he wanted to pull him out of the darkness.

But Xu Shan was definitely not Cai He. She saw the dagger inserted into his chest instead of his palm, so her right hand was injured. Cai Siqing, who was quite consistent with Xu Shan's age, background and timing of entering Beijing, could only be his substitute, a fake bait thrown by Zheng Zhuo to King Ping.

In this way, thinking about it on the other hand, since King Ping could believe that Cai He was Xu Shan, it means that he had originally placed the object of suspicion in the court. In other words, Xu Shan is most likely an official in the court.

Thinking of this, Yuan Cixian couldn't help but widen her eyes, as if she was shocked and a little dizzy, and reached out to support the edge of the desk.

Her head suddenly turned rapidly, and she kept thinking about the repeated interactions with Xu Shan over the past six months, and finally stopped thinking about the night when he came to Yuan Mansion to attend the banquet. She pretended to be drunk and lifted his mask.

A large part of the reason she eliminated her suspicion and vigilance against him was that she saw the mottled face behind his mask that night. But now she turned around and looked at it again, but she found that there was actually a loophole in this matter - that was that she gave him time to hide his true face.

She underestimated Xu Shan's grasp and calculation of people's hearts. In fact, perhaps, when she invited him to play chess and asked him to give him chess, he had already guessed her thoughts and then went to the banquet. Naturally, she knew that she would take the initiative to test, so she made such a horrible face in advance.

The wound on his face was fake. He lied to her.

When Zhuzhi saw her frowning and her eyes flashed, she hesitated and asked: "Little lady?"

She came back to her senses and responded suddenly, "Is there an official who asked for sick leave or filing leave yesterday?"

"I don't know, but I want to go and investigate for you?"

Yuan Cixian nodded with a serious expression and said, "If not, I will give me a list of officials above the fifth rank in the court."

Yesterday's dynasty meeting was not a great dynasty. Only officials above the fifth rank could participate. As she expected, Xu Shan was among these people.

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After searching for a round of branches, I found that an old minister from the Ministry of Personnel did not go to court yesterday due to illness. However, after Yuan Cixian saw his age, he immediately ruled out the possibility and then screened the list.

All the fifth ranks and above are considered quite a small official. Except for the youngest Lu Shiqing, most of the others are over thirty. As for the occasional number of twenty-seven or eight, they are not much different in their body shape. Therefore, she only deleted some of the overly old people, and then picked out military officers and several natives in Chang'an from them, and finally listed about twenty key suspects.

However, there was no progress afterwards.

None of these high-ranking officials are easy to fool. As her identity, she could not come to visit her door, nor could she go to Xuanzheng Hall to watch the court, and could not get close to them at all. She asked Zhuzhi and took the risk of squatting at the residences of several of the officials, but she did not find anyone injured. She asked Lu Shiqing indirectly, but saw that he looked unhappy, as if she felt that she was not enough to climb his "high branch" and wanted to climb another branch again.

She had no other choice but to wait until the first day of March, when my brother went to the court and asked him to help him pay attention. But half a month had passed since Xu Shan's assassination, and it was really difficult to take the opportunity to find something. Yuan Yu selected a few people on the list who were interested in getting close to him, and called him brothers and brothers and beat their chests one by one, but naturally he didn't find anyone's expressions different.

On March 15th, the wound had initially healed, and the chance was even slim. Yuan Yu returned in vain again, but brought back another news that had nothing to do with Xu Shan, which caused Yuan Cixian, who had been in trouble in his heart to divert his attention: It is said that the prince of Nanzhao Xiju was preparing to visit Beijing in April.

Since the war in the first month of the year, Nanzhao has retreated peacefully and has not harassed the Great Zhou again. For some reason, the Prince of Nanzhao has changed his strategy of hostility with the Great Zhou in recent years and turned to show goodwill to the court, as if he was willing to bow to the Emperor of Zhou. Recently, he has proposed to restore the trade between the two countries that had been cut off for many years.

Emperor Huining was a vain person with good faces and always valued the so-called "great power posture". If Nanzhao was sincerely willing to surrender, one was that the foreign races in the south might follow suit. The weakened Zhou Dynasty for many years would have an unprecedented opportunity to revitalize; the other was that the King of Southern Yunnan might no longer have any use of his power, so he could justify weakening the power of southern Yunnan and eliminate the troubles he had been in charge of for many years.

So when Xiju showed his kindness to the court, even though there were many opposition voices in the court and felt that something abnormal would happen, Emperor Huining still retained his attitude of acceptance and claimed that he was willing to talk to him in person.

In early April, Xiju went north under the name of Nanzhao envoy, and arrived at the capital at the end of April. He was welcomed into Chang'an by Emperor Huining with the ceremony of a great country. On that day, the Daming Palace held a reception banquet, and all officials attended. From noon to night, the wine, meat, singing and dancing were extremely luxurious, with silk, bamboo, orchestra, zither, flute and flute, and never stopped for a moment.

At the banquet, Xiju presented the treasures brought on this trip, mostly jade pearls, and goldware from the Piao Kingdom bordering the southwest of Nanzhao. After Emperor Huining accepted it, he waved his hand and gave him a more precious gift to show the great country's kindness to his subordinates and people.

When the banquet finally ended, many officials who opposed their friendship with Nanzhao shook their heads one by one and had no choice but to step out of the hall gate.

Lu Shiqing was not a person who showed his emotions. Instead, he had a friendly official voice with the stern servant, second only to Emperor Huining, on the table, and had a few friendly conversations. Before leaving, he smiled and praised the jade ring he wore on his little finger, thinking that he belonged to Yuan Cixian.

The Seiju was also missing from him for more than three months. It was like he was more than two hundred autumns away. He greeted him in not very fluent Chinese when he was going to get married, claiming that he hoped to have a glass of wine on this trip.

After the banquet was dispersed, Lu Shiqing left the palace calmly, sneering in his heart that his face was as big as a basin. When he returned to the mansion, he was about to rest after taking a shower, but heard Cao An hurriedly report a news that the secret agent found that after leaving the Daming Palace, he seemed to be lost due to drunkenness and was now one mile away from Shengyefang.

Lu Shiqing was no longer indifferent.

You can get lost while drunk, and you can be right incorrectly. You can dodge the Jinwu Guard who is patrolling the night and fall into Shengyefang where the Yuan family is located? Why didn’t he come to visit his Yongxingfang?

Lu Shiqing rolled back and forth on the bed twice, stood up resolutely, and said, "Tell the saint that the prince's whereabouts are suspicious. I am going to follow him personally."
Chapter completed!